rooted my note 2

[jidery]

This is my first Android phone so now what?

 

[MBentz]

This is my first Android phone so now what?

Customize it?

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

I've been considering the doing the same but Verizon isn't rooting friendly.

 

[zerogear]

If you're fairly satisfied with the stock experience, there isn't really much need for rooting.

But on a fairly basic level, you can setup host level ad-block when you have root and do custom recovery to nandroid backup your phone.

 

[dawheat]

Simplest thing to do is probably install Titanium Backup and use it to freeze any bloatware you don't use. Check out xda-developers to find the list of bloatware that's safe to freeze. You can also run backups through it to restore your phone quickly in the future.

If you want more, you can install a new ROM (my fav for the Note 2 http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1986893) which in most cases already removes all the bloat, gives more options, and some other optimizations. You'll need to install a custom recovery first (twrp). ROM is faster, stable, and gives more built-in customization.

 

[AnMig]

I am using verizon and rooted and using tw rom.

Tried briefly paranoid and zome other aosp rom but realized hulu does not work on them yet. Netflix works woth a workaround.

Decidedbto roll back on a tw rom where everything works.

Just remember to use. Touch recovery when flashing rom and do not use odin unless you are flashing back to stock.

 

[shortylickens]

This is my first Android phone so now what?

How did you root?

 

[Chocu1a]

I've been considering the doing the same but Verizon isn't rooting friendly.

Whaaaat? Run CASUAL & you are rooted & running custom recovery. Takes all of 5 minutes.
I have owned 3 different Note 2 & all were unlocked, rooted, and running CleanROM in five minutes of taking them out of the box.

 

[Zaap]

Yep, Verizon root with CASUAL couldn't be easier. Check xda-developers under the VZW N2 forum. Like Chocu1a, rooted mine a few minutes after I bought it. (I'm sticking with stock though, happy with it. I just wanted to freeze all the VZW crap with Titanium.)

My advice: before attempting (If on a PC running Windows) download the drivers from Samsung and make extra extra sure they are installed and device recognized in device manager exactly as recommended. It took me a few cycles of plugging and unplugging the device to get things to read exactly right in device manager.

Just about everyone that has any trouble rooting hasn't taken the time to be sure of this step.

 

[tdawg]

Whaaaat? Run CASUAL & you are rooted & running custom recovery. Takes all of 5 minutes.
I have owned 3 different Note 2 & all were unlocked, rooted, and running CleanROM in five minutes of taking them out of the box.

Is cleanrom s-pen friendly? Does it retain the samsung camera? I want to move to a custom rom, but I'm not willing to give up the performance of the camera on the stock rom or the s-pen. I tried AOSP Build 6 and it was nice having 4.2.2, but the stock camera app was subpar, especially with HDR enabled, and the s-pen, while functional, showed a mouse pointer when it contacted the screen. Too annoying so I went back to stock for the time being.

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

Whaaaat? Run CASUAL & you are rooted & running custom recovery. Takes all of 5 minutes.
I have owned 3 different Note 2 & all were unlocked, rooted, and running CleanROM in five minutes of taking them out of the box.

I'll check it out. I'm sure there's a bit of paranoia on my part with potentially bricking something I can't afford to replace right now.

 

[Geekbabe]

Funny, the Note 2 is the 1st phone that I really have no desire to install a custom rom on. The stock experience is actually quite decent.

 

[gorcorps]

Is cleanrom s-pen friendly? Does it retain the samsung camera? I want to move to a custom rom, but I'm not willing to give up the performance of the camera on the stock rom or the s-pen. I tried AOSP Build 6 and it was nice having 4.2.2, but the stock camera app was subpar, especially with HDR enabled, and the s-pen, while functional, showed a mouse pointer when it contacted the screen. Too annoying so I went back to stock for the time being.

Check xda for Touchwiz based roms instead of aosp ones. Those are the ones that'll keep a lot of the Samsung features but still clean up the experience and make everything smoother.

 

[Chocu1a]

Is cleanrom s-pen friendly? Does it retain the samsung camera? I want to move to a custom rom, but I'm not willing to give up the performance of the camera on the stock rom or the s-pen. I tried AOSP Build 6 and it was nice having 4.2.2, but the stock camera app was subpar, especially with HDR enabled, and the s-pen, while functional, showed a mouse pointer when it contacted the screen. Too annoying so I went back to stock for the time being.

CleanROM is a bloat-free, cleaned up stock Touchwiz rom. It has all the functionality of the stock experience, but is much smoother, faster, & cleaner. It also has tether unlocked, so you don't need a third party app to bypass the carrier check. He has an International based version, a Verizon specific version, & an AT&T specific version. The International version will work with all carriers, I believe. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2055170

Funny, the Note 2 is the 1st phone that I really have no desire to install a custom rom on. The stock experience is actually quite decent.

I thought the same thing...until I installed CleanROM, & you WILL notice the difference right away. It improves on the stock experience in almost every way.

 

[dawheat]

Is cleanrom s-pen friendly? Does it retain the samsung camera? I want to move to a custom rom, but I'm not willing to give up the performance of the camera on the stock rom or the s-pen. I tried AOSP Build 6 and it was nice having 4.2.2, but the stock camera app was subpar, especially with HDR enabled, and the s-pen, while functional, showed a mouse pointer when it contacted the screen. Too annoying so I went back to stock for the time being.

Yes to pretty much everything. It's the first ROM I've used across my S3 and Note 2 I can recommend without any caveats.

Multi-window actually works better since it includes an app to insert any app into multi-window, not just the default set.

It's TW based so you get all the Samsung features, just without the bloat.

Just make sure you follow the steps the first time you install (full wipe, etc) and ideally don't restore apps. The first time, I'd recommend just downloading the newest apps vs. restoring from TiBu. Personally I've never had an issue restoring, but did see some app stuttering here and there until a newer version of the app was installed.